Photo #: NH 51957
"Loss of the 'Monitor' in a Storm off Cape Hatteras, December
30th, 1862. -- Gallant efforts to rescue the Crew by the 'Rhode
Island'."
Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War",
Volume I, page 248. It shows USS Monitor sinking at left,
with a boat picking up crewmen, as USS Rhode Island stands
by in the right background, firing rockets.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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